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Recent Articles
Medical Review Panels
Nancy W. Trentham represents the nonprofit Kentucky Initiative for Quality Nursing Home Standards. She recently wrote a great editorial about Kentucky's attempts to create "medical review panels". House Bill 361 proposed by Rep. Melvin Henley, D-Murray "would create...
Shame them into providing better care?
Kaiser Health News blog "The Capsule" had an informative article on the failure of Medicare’s seven-year effort to increase quality improvements in hospital care by publishing key performance metrics on its Hospital Compare website. The effort has not resulted in fewer...
President Threatens Veto
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY--H.R. 5 – Protecting Access to Healthcare Act The Affordable Care Act made significant improvements to our Nation’s health care system, including creating the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The fifteen expert members of the Board,...
Quality Indicator Survey Needs Improvement
McKnight's had an article about thenew GAO Report showing that The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services need to make serious improvements in the tools it uses to evaluate the quality of nursing home care. The Government Accountability Office conducted an investigation to determine...
Fatal Assault at Nursing Home
Oak Park nursing home failed to supervise two patients with histories of aggressive outbursts before a fight that left one dead, according to a report released by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Anibal Calderon died Feb. 14 of head injuries from a fight two days earlier at Oak...

